Julia Haav will join Yale University Press as publicist later this month. She was most recently a publicist at Europa Editions. Publishing veteran Bridget Marmion is launching a marketing consulting firm, Your Expert Nation. She has developed a national network of experts in “virtually every genre and service,” including such industry professionals as John Tewsley, Laura Chittenden, Victoria Meyer, Charlotte Abbott, Lee Stern, Greg Mowery, Jennifer Northcutt, Susan Aikens, Nancy Quinn, Jack Covert, social media consultant Susan Halligan, Sean Concannon and Sonnet Media, and mommy blogger and author Paula Balzer. She will work with strategic partner Rich Kelley (with expertise in SEO, […]
Awards
Carol Anshaw’s Carry The One Leads March Indie Next List
Here are the ABA’s monthly picks for March: 1. Carry The One, by Carol Anshaw (Simon & Schuster) The Song of Achilles: A Novel, by Madeline Miller (Ecco) Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories, by Megan Mayhew Bergman (Scribner) Pure, by Julianna Baggott (Grand Central) The Starboard Sea: A Novel, by Amber Dermont (St. Martin’s Press) Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, by Jeanette Winterson (Grove) The Healing: A Novel, by Jonathan Odell (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) The Book of Lost Fragrances: A Novel of Suspense, by M.J. Rose (Atria) The Inquisitor: A Novel, by Mark Allen Smith (Holt) […]
People, Etc.
Former president, publisher, and editor-in-chief of Doubleday & Co. and later an editor and svp at Random House Sam Vaughan, 83, died in his sleep at home on Monday. Random House writes, “we lost one of the giants and great gentlemen of 20th-century book publishing…. Under Sam’s leadership, Doubleday, which he joined in the fifties and with whom he was synonymous for more than thirty years, was one of America’s leading publishing houses, with a deep list of iconic authors admired by critics, booksellers, and the reading public.” Among the Doubleday writers he edited were Dwight D. Eisenhower, Wallace Stegner, […]
People, Etc.
At Kirkus Media, vp business development Meg LaBorde Kuehn has been promoted to chief operating officer, part of the company’s expansion into new lines of business, including digital marketing solutions for publishers and a growing suite of services for unpublished and self-published authors. Kuehn will report to company president Marc Winkelman and lead the business teams of Kirkus Media, including sales and marketing, technology development and author services. In addition, Casey Gannon moves up to marketing director, Perry Crowe has been named director of Kirkus Editorial (their new book editing division), and Ryan Leahey has been named indie editor, all […]
People, Etc.
Knopf evp, executive director of publicity, promotion and media relations Paul Bogaards penned the most talked about online item of the day, a Top 100 “Hierarchy of Book Publishing” with the same spirit as some of his inimitable Twitter posts. Bogaards told us by e-mail, “Consider the post a Valentine to our industry, which I love, and honestly, I couldn’t imagine doing anything else.” Random House, S&S, Nosy Crow, and Robot Media were among the winners of the 2nd annual Publishing Innovation Awards, announced Monday night as part of the opening of Digital Book World. Full List At Harper UK, group […]
Awards: Newbery and Caldecott Winners; NBCC Award Nominees; and More
The ALA presented their many Youth Media Awards this morning on the closing day of their winter meeting in Denver. (Thanks to the organizers for the live webcast of this year’s presentation.) The Newbery medal went to DEAD END IN NORVELT, by Jack Gantos (FSG); the Caldecott went to A BALL FOR DAISY, illustrated and written by Chris Raschka (Schwartz & Wade). Among other honorees, John Corey Whaley won the YA Michael L. Printz Award for WHERE THINGS COME BACK (Atheneum) and Susan Cooper won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for “significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.” For the complete list of medalists […]